In order to make resizing consistent, Emacs keeps the scroll bar at
the same width as the character width.
Can't see how the scrollbar with can be a problem. Ok, Emacs let's the
user resize the window (contents of the window) in character units,
but a (GNOME) window can have *any* size.
Any window can have any size. But to resize in character units you must
impose some restrictions. On the X11 level it is not that hard to make
the scroll bar have different width. Internally in Emacs it is harder,
as there are places that convert to/from pixels simply by multiplying by
the column width.
But the GTK scroll bars have a fixed width, which only sometimes are
the same width as the Emacs character width. Therefore there are gaps.
This is not specific to Emacs compiled with GTK support. The standard
X Windows scrollbar has the same problem.
The Emacs internal (i.e. non-toolkit) scroll bar does not have this
problem, but GTK, Xaw and Lesstif/Motif does.
Jan D.
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